[Albion] Hughton and Injuries tracker 2018/19

chaileyjem said:

Pre - Chelsea presser

Ali J [hamstring] - “available”

Murray [shoulder] - “he is fine now and has made a full recovery “

Izquierdo [ankle] - still not training apparently . “We hope he will train this morning [Friday]”

Button “it’s good to have him back ahead of next month. We knew his injury would only be a short period of time. We have a good level of [goalkeeping] competition now”

Everyone else available bar Shane Duffy [suspended] - back for Arsenal.

Via https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2018/december/preview-jahanbakhsh-fit-for-chelsea/

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chaileyjem said:

Chelsea line up:
Ali J and Izquierdo both fail to make 18. (Ali J - tactical ? Jose - fitness ?)
Steele still favoured instead of Button.

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Albion Robster said:

The same old crap coming out ' x player is close' blah blah when he's not at all.

Ali J has been close for a couple of weeks now and still not fit to play.
Doubt we'll see Alireza until after the Asian Cup now.

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chaileyjem said:

Why can't he just be close to being fit but not quite ready ? Why the conspiracy or assumption that Hughton is lying ?

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Albion Robster said:

The same old crap coming out ' x player is close' blah blah when he's not at all.

Ali J has been close for a couple of weeks now and still not fit to play.
Doubt we'll see Alireza until after the Asian Cup now.

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Kalimantan Gull said:

I'm sure CH isn't lying, but they always err on the 'he's close to returning' side of the estimate - and then there are loads of cases where it drags and drags...

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chaileyjem said:

In fact its pretty rare (see this thread) but yes it sometimes happens that players take longer than expected or they are cautious about rushing them back and estimates of their return in the press conferences are missed. .

I think this season out of about 20 or so injuries we're talking only Ali J, Izquierdo (twice). Even long term injuries/returns like Gross, Andone and Propper were pretty much signalled weeks out when they were going to return - and they did.
Everyone else CH has been on the nose. And thats a dozen plus examples.

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Kalimantan Gull said:

Certainly I don't think its a myth that players are often out longer than we're initially told.

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Kalimantan Gull said:

I'm sure CH isn't lying, but they always err on the 'he's close to returning' side of the estimate - and then there are loads of cases where it drags and drags...

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Kalimantan Gull said:

Gross was supposed to be a couple of games, it stretched to a couple of months and then they revealed a new injury..

I think that if the medical team say that an injury will be '1-3 months' the club always tell us 'we hope he's back in 1 month' - sometimes the player is back in time and often he isn't. I think they also say 'we expect him back in a couple of weeks' when they mean back to training whereas those of us listening assume it means back to playing.

Certainly I don't think its a myth that players are often out longer than we're initially told.

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ewe2 said:

AJ s season is not going well !

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chaileyjem said:

Pre Arsenal

Ali j / Izquierdo “only 2 injuries” - no further update.

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Triggaaar said:

Pre-Burnley (8th Dec) Jose was the same as Glenn (who had made a full recovery, and played).
Ali J was unlikely to be risked for the Leicester game on 24th Nov. He was available (apparently) for Chelsea (16th Dec).
Now we’re told they’re still not ready for Arsenal on the 26th.

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